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Security Update

May 22 – Terrorist have made several attempts to break through the state border of Ukraine in Luransk region. A number of state border service officers have been wounded and shell-shocked as a result of these attacks (snipers were also involved). “The snipers were aiming at our officers from the nearest buildings. The fight lasted 1.5 hours”, informs State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.

May 22 – On Thursday night the terrorists from Russia have made a fourth attempt to break through the state border of Ukraine. “Three reinforced heavy duty vehicles – KAMAZ accompanied by a NIVA automobile have tried to break through the state border of Ukraine from Russian Federation. Ukrainian state border officers have countered the attack and urgently called on the Border Service of Russia to ensure proper order on the Russian side”, stated Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

May 22 – A Russian citizen was detained by the border guards at the passenger train station in Kharkiv. This man worked as a sniper during the two Chechen wars and was travelling to eastern parts of Ukraine. He recently received additional briefing and trained intensively in Rostov-on-Don.

May 22 – A five hour fight took place between the soldiers of the National Guards of Ukraine and the “South-Eastern Army near the cities of Rubizhne and Lysyschansk in Luhansk oblast. A bridge over Siverskyi Donets River was blown up during the confrontation.

May 22 – 16 Ukrainian soldiers died as a result of an armed clash between the insurgents and the anti-terrorist operation participants near Volnovakha in Donetsk region.

May 22 – Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has exposed a base of saboteurs, which was located in downtown Kyiv, right above the office of one of deputies of the Supreme Council of Ukraine. Terrorists opened fire when SSU officers arrived at this location. 40 kalashnikov rifles, explosives and Russian flags were found at this base. The terrorists have been arrested. They were operating in Kyiv under the orders of Russian intelligence agencies, informs SSU.

May 22 – The leader of Luhansk based separatists Valeriy Bolotov has addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin calling on him to deploy peace keeping troops to the “Luhansk Republic”. A few days prior Bolotov travelled to Russia. On Saturday, May 17th he fought his way back to Ukraine.

May 22 – Terrorists who are operating in Donbas are trained at a large army base near Rostov-on-Don in Russian Federation, informs the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy. He also says that on Thursday night the insurgents implemented their attacks in 4 Donbas cities. All the attacks were fought off.

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How to end the war in 3 days:

“Dear Citizens of Ukraine. If you come to Maidan with your passport and $300, you can purchase an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammunition. Your passport will be stamped. One stamp per person. You must attend a three-hour training course. Courses will be held at Maidan around the clock until people stop coming. You can purchase your weapon immediately after completing the course. Proceeds will go toward equipping the Ukrainian Army.”

“Right Sector” Helped the Main Forces of “Donbass” Battalion to Break Out of the Siege

The fighters of “Praviy Sector” came to the rescue and unblocked the main forces of the battalion “Donbass,” which had been surrounded by terrorists near the village of Karlivka of Donetsk oblast.

This was written by the leader of “Praviy Sector” Dmytro Yarosh on his Facebook page.

“After horrible losses near Volnovakha, the terrorists’ siege against the department of “Donbass” battalion… “Praviy Sector” fighters came to the rescue and unblocked the main forces of this volunteer formation. There are killed and many wounded among our guys. Our attack forces have come. The battle continues!” He wrote.

According to him, the Ukrainian soldiers have too few weapons.
“And again – either incompetence or the betrayal of the ATO leadership. And again – very few weapons for our guys, a limited military supply and an exemplary armament of the terrorists. It seems that the leadership of the country and Facebook ministers, which are heads of the ATO, are more scared of armed Ukrainian patriots than the enemies of the state – the armed separatists,” added Yarosh.

http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/05/23/right-sector-helped-the-main-forces-of-donbass-battalion-to-break-out-of-the-siege/

Donbas Battalion Ambushed

The Donbas Battalion has been freeing rural areas of Donetsk Oblast but fell under ambush about 2.5 hours ago. They have now managed to get out of the encirclement. They are asking for support. Some injuries, no deaths reported. Where they have freed an area, Ukrainian television has been restored so that locals can know what’s really going on in Ukraine.

http://inforesist.org/battalonu-donbass-udalos-vyrvatsya-iz-okruzheniya/

16 #Ukrainians killed, 32 wounded in #Russian attack (update)

@Ukroblogger Ukrainian Updates 3h

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J-axhT4B3Q

The soldiers were mostly from Volyn Oblast.

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Here are they alive, yesterday. Notice: No security. No discipline. No tactical positioning of vehicles. Learning is painful. Ugh. Such a waste. So depressing.

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These young men are dead because they and/or their leaders were lazy, undisciplined, and/or poorly trained.

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Commentary from 1+1 channel reporter: “It is 100 km from Slovyansk ao noone expected night attack.”

Idiots!

Rotting Garbage, Boredom, Chaos in Donetsk People’s Republic

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) – The Donetsk People’s Republic is starting to smell.

Rotting garbage is piling up in the hallways of the government office building seized by separatists in eastern Ukraine. Telephones ripped from the walls are piled atop broken furniture and mounds of old files. The stench of sweat and stale cigarettes is everywhere. The guards, slouching men with pistols shoved in their pockets or flapping loosely in holsters, look increasingly bored.

It’s been six weeks since they took over the building, a week since they declared independence from Ukraine. But the authority of the alleged nation barely extends beyond their ten-story office tower and a few heavily armed checkpoints on roads leading into this industrial city 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Russian border.

In the streets of Donetsk, the separatist leaders and their followers are increasingly derided as a collection of heavily armed, barely employed misfits. Outside of the rebels’ headquarters, it can be difficult to find anyone who agrees with their calls to secede from Ukraine and link this part of the country – with its generations of ethnic and linguistic ties to Russia – to Moscow.

“All this shouting about us being a republic. What kind of a republic is this?” asked Leonid Krivonos, a 75-year-old retired miner, angry that the separatists are refusing to allow Ukraine’s upcoming presidential election. “The young ones still have a future to look forward to, and they risk seeing that all destroyed.”

The interim Ukrainian government hopes Sunday’s presidential election will unite the country behind a new leader, but separatists across the east have vowed to block the vote.

Donetsk’s separatist leader waves away any prospect of an election. After all, insists Denis Pushilin, chairman of the self-declared Supreme Council, Donetsk is not in Ukraine anymore.

“How can we hold an election of a neighboring country on our territory?” said the 32-year-old Pushilin, smiling in an interview in his tenth-floor office.

A few feet away, his bodyguard fell asleep in a desk chair, one hand clutching a holstered pistol.

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_306481/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=szFV8MSp

Saboteur caught in Kharkiv

Today in #Kharkiv border guards detained a Russian citizen who officials are saying is a soldier and veteran of the two Chechen wars.

The 34-year old man could not clearly identify the purpose of his trip, and upon investigation was found to be an experienced sniper who had recently underwent instruction and intensive training in Rostov-on-Don.